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  1. Re:Protest? on "Anonymous" Takes Scientology Protest to the Streets · · Score: 1

    By that logic, MLK was persecuting and harassing white people?

  2. I love NewYorkCountyLawyer on RIAA's Attack On NewYorkCountryLawyer Fails · · Score: 5, Funny

    How many times on how many levels can one reference oneself. He submitted an article that was written by him about a court ruling on his work. I'm not dissing him, I'm just envious. Maybe someday, I'll figure out a way to write a fully recursive story.

  3. No, very good. on Muslim Groups Attempt to Censor Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    I'd modd you up, haven't had points in a while.

    Its a great pun. I plan on using it later today, and taking full credit for it. Nothing personal, I just don't want to explain how I got that joke from "Inbred Tom".

    Thanks!

  4. Re:Sick of Huckabee on Super Tuesday, McCain Leads Reps, Dems Undecided · · Score: 1

    Its much closer to a one man race now, if that makes you happier. Its a much smaller margin between Romnney and Huck in delegates, than between them and McCain. Really, toss a coin to pick the "second Man" in the race.

  5. Indeed on 111 Years Ago, Indiana Almost Legislated Pi · · Score: 1

    Its long been my desire to define some sort of Reimanian space that would use the fundamental constants in the metric. However, I was never very good in my Reimanian Geometry class. I took it without any of the perquisites. Some day, I'll take off 10 years like Einstien did and learn real Math.

  6. Re:Ron Paul? on Best Presidential Candidate, Republicans · · Score: 1

    Here, here. Any one claiming that Ron Paul has a shot should be forced to turn in ther math degrees!

  7. BSD is cool with me. on 10K Filing Suggests Grim Outlook for SCO · · Score: 1

    No problem. Just said GPL cause thats what the license of linux is. Therefore it couldn't possibly be a problem to have Gpl'd cod in a program that was licensed under GPL. But BSD works as well. Really looking forward to putting BSD 7 through its paces. Much love for BSD.

  8. What gas station attendants? on Dutch Unveil Robot Gas Station Attendant · · Score: 1

    I haven't seen one since I was 6. As far as I know they only exist in New Jersey, where its illegal to pump your own gas. But good thoughts otherwise. Are attendants more common in Europe or other parts of the world beyond the Midwest of the United States?

  9. Not pieces! Some one please eat them whole! on 10K Filing Suggests Grim Outlook for SCO · · Score: 1

    If they are split up into pieces, it increases the likely hood that some well funded patent troll will pick up part of them and resume the lawsuits. I'd like it if the court just rules that all of SCO belongs to Novell. Then Novell should just release any of the things that SCO claimed were UNIX code, or ideas as GPL.

  10. I'm confused on RIAA Wants Songwriter Royalty Lowered · · Score: 1

    Are you actually recommending the music industry goes to an advertising supported model, or are you pointing out the fact that one industry figured out a business model proves that every other unrelated industry can too?

    I have no Idea how the Nobel economic prise committee overlooked your work this year, the fools!

  11. Is everything about the dough? on RIAA Wants Songwriter Royalty Lowered · · Score: 1

    Is it every worth it to stand up for the right thing, even if its going to cost you money? He wasn't wrong legally or morally just financially. Which one is more important to you?

  12. Re:AIDS free world on Experts Claim HIV Patients Made Non-Infectious · · Score: 4, Insightful

    We've had a cure for tuberculosis for quite some time as well as polio, yet they are still around. TB still kills many people and has become drug resistant, because people don't take their meds on a regular schedule. If you don't take your aids medicine on time ( a more complex drug regimen), you will still be infectious. But none of that is particularly new. The new aspect is that they say that its not contagious when you have been on the regimen for a while.

    Now, the optimistic among us would have hopped that those on drug regimen knew they could spread the disease and modify their behavior accordingly. So this announcement should actually have little affect. If you were doing what the doctors told you to do, you weren't spreading the disease same as before. Maybe this would act as a motivation for some people? But it also might cause people to engage in riskier behavior and compound the issue.

  13. Re:asynchronous committ on PostgreSQL 8.3 Released · · Score: 1

    I think if you go back and look your sources, your statement should read something more like " You never _had_ durability on your systems that you didn't properly setup to have durability". Which makes a lot more sense.

  14. Re:Windows 7 on How Microsoft-Yahoo Will Affect Open Source · · Score: 1

    Good idea, I was starting to worry that they wouldn't have an excuse to delay the release for another seven years.

  15. Re:Lame chair joke on Yahoo May Re-Consider Google Alliance, Rebuff Microsoft · · Score: 0

    Still... Not ... funny.

    Humor gland not pleased!

  16. Lame chair joke on Yahoo May Re-Consider Google Alliance, Rebuff Microsoft · · Score: 0

    Sorry, they are all lame. Besides, everyone knows the interns have a woodshop ...

    No, can't complete joke. Still lame. Not funny. No chair jokes have ever, can ever, or will ever be funny. Stop insulting our humor glands!

  17. Re:Priorities on Mega-D Botnet Overtakes Storm, Accounts for 32% of Spam · · Score: 1

    Very Interesting. I think that idea really trancends politics to almost every area. People are more willing to let a crisis come, rather than taking steps to prevent it. I'm nto sure how much of that is caused by psychological inertia, and how much of it is malicious.

  18. Re:Third cut? on Third Undersea Cable Cut · · Score: 1

    My mom has a color association. She hates Red. Nothing in our house was allowed to be red. She also pronounces the word wrong out of sheer spite (She says with a southern drawl not present in any of her other words 'RaaadD'). I don't know why, she says she just hates it. To be honest, its sort of rubbed off on me. I don't have any clothes with red in them, and I can't bring myself to buy anything thats red. It just looks wrong, unless its a small dress on an attractive woman. Then its cool.

    Maybe thats why I don't like Red Hat or Fedora.

  19. Or are they on Third Undersea Cable Cut · · Score: 1

    You're completely correct in your estimate of the situation, which is why you are completely wrong. It looks like an "accident". Like when Regean, developed "Alzheimer's". Or Patton died in a Car "accident".

  20. Re:Bizarre overstatement: A *CURE* for Cancer? on Carbon Nanotubes Can Exist Safely Inside the Body, Help Treat Cancer · · Score: 1

    I think most relapses of cancer are due to it never being completly removed the first time, but I'm not a doctor. I just read doctor realted things on the internet like everyone else here.

    Like the other response to your post, I'm not sure If I agree with your terminology. Prevention is not the same as a cure. As the following statement would be incorrect usage of the word cure: I cured malaria by living in Antarctica.

  21. A non religeous analogy on Pope Denounces Some Biotech as Affront to 'Human Dignity' · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Oil tycoons, and the auto industry were not very happy when scientists started saying that their products were hurting the earth. Of course, they kept on doing it and encouraging every one else to. And they can continue to now. However, there are long term consequences for doing the wrong thing, even if you disagree that its wrong. Rush Limbaugh can get together a bunch of people and have an anti global warming party, and they can feel all nice a fuzzy that its culturally acceptable to disbelieve in global warming and laugh at Al Gore and the Nobel committee. It still doesn't mean they are correct, or that there won't be severe consequences for everyone if we don't do something about it.

    The Pope is speaking on similar moral truths. If allow ourselves to start restricting further and further the definition of life, it will become easier for us to eliminate everyone else that falls outside those boundaries. Humans can't be trusted to decide who lives and who dies.

  22. Re:Thats nice and all. on DoJ Extends Microsoft Oversight for Two Years · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I just think the effect of the courts remedies does little to nothing to solve the problem. They aren't nearly as effective as the TB vaccine ( 80%). I think the main effect of the court action is similar to most civil court cases: little changes except the lawyer's bank accounts. I think firefox has proved that real competition has more effect than any court case.

  23. Thats nice and all. on DoJ Extends Microsoft Oversight for Two Years · · Score: 2, Funny

    The real important question: Is microsoft any less of a monopoly due to any of these remedy's?

  24. Re:In a word ... Yes on Artificial Bases Added to DNA · · Score: 1

    God point. Everyone knows correct spelling of latin phrases is the true sign of Genius. And I would have gotten away with it,too, if it wasn't for these darn anonymous cowards... excetera, excetera.

  25. In a word ... Yes on Artificial Bases Added to DNA · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Biologists aren't evil per say, but they will do almost anything for a grant;) Also keep in mind Risks can only be know with a large sample base. We don't know what the effect any drug is going to be on humans until we test it on statistically large enough groups. The same applies with these type of experiments. The tag is, for me just a reminder that we need to make sure that the proper ethical guidelines are followed and enough experimentation has been done to ensure that we have not invented a new courage for humans or organisms that we care about.

    To put it in terms more slashdotters will understand: you don't add new code to a production system with out figuring out ahead of time what could possibly go wrong.